Dr. P. Senthilkumar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the department of Genetic Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He acquired his Ph.D degree from UPASI Tea Research Institute, Valparai, Tamilnadu in the year 2012. He has Post Doctoral experience at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. He has received SRF Fellowship from National Tea Research Foundation, Kolkata and Post Doctoral Fellowship from DBT, Govt. of India.

His research interests include Protein Engineering and Protein Expression Systems.